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Synesthesia artist who sees sounds as colors paints art inspired by worlds biggest artists
An artist with Synesthesia, a phenomenon that causes sensory crossovers, has been creating art pieces based on what she sees when listening to artists like Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan, Hozier, and Billie Eilish.�
While the human body is capable of terrible lows, its also a remarkable bit of machinery that is constantly surprising even the brightest of us. From the way our brains store memories to how our bodies accept help from maggots.
Only 4% of the worlds population has Synesthesia
Much like the condition that makes you drunk without alcohol, Synesthesia is an incredibly rare phenomenon whereby more than one sensory pathway is active at the same time. Synesthesia can present in a number of ways, though most fit into one of two categories.
The first, projective synesthesia, describes seeing colors or shapes when another sense is triggered.
The other type is associative synesthesia, which encapsulates synesthetes who feel strong connections between the sensory stimulus and the feelings it evokes. Associative synesthesia is precisely the reason why some people say that Thursday is the green or certain months are different points on a clock.
Sarah Kraning (@sarahkraning), an artist with chromesthesia, a variation of synesthesia that connects sound to color, puts her superpower to work by painting what she sees when listening to music.
In one of her more recent videos, Sarah took on the mammoth task of capturing the spirit of Chappel Roans music. For anyone who has been living under a rock, the Queer artist has shot to popularity in recent months with tracks like Casual, Coffee, and Femininomenon.
While listening to Chappels Red Wine Supernover, Sarah had to buy new paints to content with the artists vibrant and colorful style.
Red Wine Supernova I love especially because it has so many cool waving motions with the guitar,” she told her followers. “Every time she hits those awesome guttural notes, there’s an explosion almost like fireworks.”
Touring her work of art, you could see the waves she mentioned from the guitar and the explosion of color in the upper right corner.
Other musicians the artist has covered include Hozier, Taylor Swift, Bon Iver, the Phineas and Ferb theme tune, Glass Animals, and many more.
Everyone thinks they have Synesthesia
It seems many people struggled to understand what Synesthesia was, with many suggesting it was simply someone’s imagination filling in the gaps.
One person questioned: “I don’t mean to sound any kind of way when I say this but & doesn’t everyone have synesthesia?! To some degree anyway? Like most music is colors in my head but I’m not very artistic enough to paint it.”
“Do you have to be diagnosed to have Synesthesia (idk if this is how u spell it) because I had been told often that I probably have synthesis?” another wrote.
A third said: “This feels like that one episode of the magic school bus and it’s awesome.”
